Vehicles collide on Hwy. 49

MOKELUMNE HILL - A truck loaded with liquid asphalt collided with other vehicles and spilled part of its load on Highway 49 south of the Mokelumne River just after noon Monday, closing the highway.

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MOKELUMNE HILL - A truck loaded with liquid asphalt collided with other vehicles and spilled part of its load on Highway 49 south of the Mokelumne River just after noon Monday, closing the highway.

At least one injured person was transported by ambulance to Sutter-Amador Hospital in Jackson and then by helicopter to the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Sacramento, said Officer Rebecca Myers of the California Highway Patrol's San Andreas Office.

Myers said the truck collided with two other vehicles on a steep, winding section of Highway 49 about a mile south of the Mokelumne River.

Myers said the California Department of Transportation had crews on the scene cleaning asphalt that had spilled and that the company that owns the truck also had staff there unloading some of the material that had not spilled from the tanker.

Highway 49 was closed from Electra Road just north of the Mokelumne River to the Highway 26 intersection in Mokelumne Hill.

Myers said officials were redirecting traffic up Highway 26 through West Point to Highway 88 or back down Highway 26 to Valley Springs and then to Highway 88 via Camanche Parkway. She said there was no estimate of when Highway 49 might reopen.

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